{"id":"CVE-2026-72171","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-72171","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:10:13.599Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mtd: slram: remove failed entries from the device list register_device() links a new slram_mtdlist entry before allocating all of the state needed by the entry.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmtd: slram: remove failed entries from the device list\n\nregister_device() links a new slram_mtdlist entry before allocating all\nof the state needed by the entry. If a later allocation, memremap(), or\nmtd_device_register() fails, the partially initialized entry remains on\nthe global list. A later cleanup can then dereference or free invalid\nstate from that failed entry.\n\nUnwind the partially initialized entry and clear the list tail on each\nfailure path after the entry has been linked.","published":"2026-08-15T06:21:35.000Z","lastModified":"2026-08-17T06:18:18.000Z","status":"Received","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00164,"percentile":0.05563,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.16%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/200b8bc5b6065b02f3775cf131f14b8e1156a00a","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2fd0cbbb34447ccddab67a2a638a07c6d94cae7a","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36f1648644d769c496a8e47e53603e863e358d73","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ee674ab10f755bbedbcbb8e76745d2bb8de88d1","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bdcdfc2464659789032edfad15ff5f7a166f5d7b","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8dcbbfa0d695a5244059aa34a2e81f3e8df1082","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e97415b8254d9cc131b7bb1c80fcf38123269b9a","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f40acf577bb0fb0829f285ecfeb27d817840601c","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72171","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}